Recreating the wilderness

We've claimed hold of the planet, but cluelessly, like the sorcerer's apprentice. Welcomed to the Anthropocene: the age of humanity intertwined with nature.

"Climate change is not a problem we have to make go away, in a sense that you don't make adolescence go away," astrophysicist Adam Frank said to Chris Hedges. "It is a dangerous transition that you have to navigate. . . . The question is, are we smart enough to deal with the effects of our own power?"

The planet itself is transitioning, to God knows what. There may be no human